Oura Acquires Its 56,000 SQFT San Francisco HQ at 500 Pine for $41.5MM
Oura Health converted the full-building lease it signed in January into an outright purchase of 500 Pine Street, paying $41.5 million for the...
Microsoft Stretches Data Center, Office Building Depreciation to 25 Years, Reshaping $175B CapEx Plan
The software giant told analysts on its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings call that lengthening the accounting life of its global data centers and offices...
Mountain View Shutters Downtown Lot 11 for Five Years to Build $200MM Public Safety Headquarters
Mountain View will take a full downtown parking lot offline for more than five years to make room for a new police and...
TNDC, Chinatown CDC Open 160-Unit, $166MM Affordable Housing Complex on Former Haight-Ashbury McDonald’s Site in San Francisco
The Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation and Chinatown Community Development Center have opened 730 Stanyan, a 160-unit, entirely affordable apartment complex built on the...
Macerich Scraps RH Complex at Broadway Plaza in Walnut Creek, Will Subdivide Neiman Marcus Box
Macerich has abandoned the RH luxury retail complex once planned for the vacant Neiman Marcus building at Walnut Creek's Broadway Plaza, with Chief...
Silicon Valley Multifamily Rebounds as Rent Growth Outruns Rising Costs and Sales Top $2 Billion
A resurgent apartment market across Silicon Valley’s core submarkets is delivering the strongest rent growth in years, reviving transaction velocity and drawing institutional...
Ryder Integrated Logistics Takes Entire 276,000 SQFT Building at Rancho Cordova Logistics Center
Ryder Integrated Logistics has committed to an entire Class A distribution building on the former Aerojet Rocketdyne campus in Rancho Cordova, delivering Sacramento’s...
Silicon Valley Multifamily Rebounds as Rent Growth Outruns Rising Costs and Sales Top $2 Billion
A resurgent apartment market across Silicon Valley’s core submarkets is delivering the strongest rent growth in years, reviving transaction velocity and drawing institutional...
SFUSD Cuts Ribbon on $129MM, 82,000 SQFT Mission Bay School, San Francisco’s First New Elementary in Two Decades
The San Francisco Unified School District will cut the ribbon on its long-promised Mission Bay School on August 6, capping a $129 million...
Fifth Space Lands $200MM From JPMorgan Chase for 342 Units in San Francisco as Middle-Income Fund Debuts
The bank's second infusion into the 29-acre Dogpatch megaproject pairs a construction loan for a 342-unit building with equity in an untested fund,...
Hudson Pacific Lands 891,000 SQFT City of San Francisco Lease, Sells North San Jose Buildings as Bay Area Leasing Sets Record
Hudson Pacific Properties anchored the busiest leasing quarter in its history with a 24-year commitment from the City and County of San Francisco...
Hacienda Posts Continued Gains in Q2 2026
Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, continued to strengthen its market position during the second quarter of 2026, supported by improving occupancy, positive...
Oura Acquires Its 56,000 SQFT San Francisco HQ at 500 Pine for $41.5MM
Oura Health converted the full-building lease it signed in January into an outright purchase of 500 Pine Street, paying $41.5 million for the...
Microsoft Stretches Data Center, Office Building Depreciation to 25 Years, Reshaping $175B CapEx Plan
The software giant told analysts on its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings call that lengthening the accounting life of its global data centers and offices...
Silicon Valley Multifamily Rebounds as Rent Growth Outruns Rising Costs and Sales Top $2 Billion
A resurgent apartment market across Silicon Valley’s core submarkets is delivering the strongest rent growth in years, reviving transaction velocity and drawing institutional...
SFUSD Cuts Ribbon on $129MM, 82,000 SQFT Mission Bay School, San Francisco’s First New Elementary in Two Decades
The San Francisco Unified School District will cut the ribbon on its long-promised Mission Bay School on August 6, capping a $129 million...
Northern California Hotel Sales Slide 16% to $642MM as San Francisco and Alameda Volumes Tumble
Northern California recorded 68 hotel sales in the first half of 2026, but dollar volume fell 15.7 percent to $641.8 million as steep...
Bay Area Venture Funding Surges to $100B in Q2 2026, Powered by Anthropic’s $65B AI Round
The nine-county Bay Area drew $100.2 billion in venture capital across 861 deals in the second quarter of 2026, with San Francisco alone...
Northern California Commercial Real Estate News
Hacienda Posts Continued Gains in Q2 2026
Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, continued to strengthen its market position during the second quarter of 2026, supported by improving occupancy,...
Continue ReadingOura Acquires Its 56,000 SQFT San Francisco HQ at 500 Pine for $41.5MM
Oura Health converted the full-building lease it signed in January into an outright purchase of 500 Pine Street, paying $41.5 million for the...
Think Surgical Signs 10-Year Lease for 35,000 SQFT Milpitas R&D Office, Halving Its Fremont Footprint
Think Surgical signs a 10-year Milpitas R&D lease, halving its footprint as it exits manufacturing to focus on design.
Bay Area Office Recovery Broadens as Vacancy Falls to 20% and Sublease Space Hits Six-Year Low
Colliers’ Q2 2026 report found Bay Area office vacancy fell to 20 percent and sublease space hit its lowest level since early 2020,...
Marin County Taps McCarthy Building Companies and COAR Design Group for $71MM Progressive Design-Build Fire Headquarters
County selects McCarthy and COAR for its largest construction investment to date for first-of-its-kind progressive design-build contract Marin County, CA – The Marin...
DivcoWest Closes on 47.5% of San Francisco’s 101 California Tower in ~$450MM Trophy Office Deal
DivcoWest has completed its purchase of a 47.5 percent stake in 101 California Street, finalizing San Francisco’s largest office transaction in more than...
Bay Area Life Sciences Vacancy Jumps to 26.2% as Pfizer Vacates 164,000 SQFT at Oyster Point and Emeryville Land Sells for Half Its 2019 Price
The San Francisco Bay Area’s life sciences vacancy rate climbed 310 basis points year over year to 26.2 percent as more than 500,000...
Redwood City Elevates Two Veteran Insiders to Lead Public Works and Sustainability Push
Redwood City has handed the keys to its sprawling public works operation to two longtime insiders, promoting Adrian Lee to services director and...
San Francisco Downtown Development Corp. Taps Housing-Finance Veteran to Lead Office-to-Housing Conversion Push
The San Francisco Downtown Development Corp. has recruited longtime Enterprise Community Partners director Geeta Rao as its first vice president of real estate,...
Port of Oakland Commissioners Hand Board Presidency to Stephanie Dominguez Walton as Cargo Volumes Claw Back
The seven-member panel that governs Northern California’s third-busiest container gateway, a 20-mile stretch of Oakland waterfront and a rebounding regional airport has installed...
Lurie Taps Real Estate Veteran to Run Port of San Francisco as Waterfront Development Pipeline Swells
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has elevated Michael Martin from acting chief to permanent executive director of the Port of San Francisco, handing...
Berkadia Taps Veteran Multifamily Executive as Chief Revenue Officer to Unify Mortgage Banking and Investment Sales Platforms
Berkadia has appointed a veteran multifamily capital markets executive as its new Chief Revenue Officer, tasking him with unifying and scaling the firm’s...
McNellis: In Denial Over the New Normal
By John McNellis Developers always crash and burn in the movies. The eternal bad guy, the developers’ heinous plans to pave a beach,...
California Never: A New City That Keeps Changing Its Mind
Five identities in three years, zero houses, and one very nervous neighbor. Opinion by Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous)...
The Art of the Quiet Exit, A Hudson Pacific Story
Hudson Pacific’s COO resigned with the usual boilerplate denial attached—but after a $572 million annual loss, a scrapped dividend and a stock down...
The Data Center Bargain: What Every Town Should Demand
Free power. Free heat. Clean water. The bargain every town should be demanding. By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous)...
Bed Bath & Boomerang
By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous) In August 2025, Marcus Lemonis, the executive chairman of Beyond, Inc.—which is to...
McNellis: F*** Real Estate?
Publisher’s Note What began over a decade ago as a series of candid, sharp-witted articles written for The Registry has grown into one of the...
Beacon Capital Lists 273,000 SQFT 655 Montgomery in San Francisco with $150MM Guidance
Beacon Capital Partners has enlisted JLL to sell 655 Montgomery Street, an 87 percent-leased Class A tower facing the Transamerica Pyramid, betting that...
Pimco Prime Real Estate Lists 383,000 SQFT Office Tower for $250MM in San Francisco
Pimco Prime Real Estate is seeking roughly $653 a square foot for the Docusign-anchored tower, a price that would rank among San Francisco’s...
California Attorney General Rejects Menlo Park’s Case Against 665-Home Willow Park Project
California Attorney General Rob Bonta's office has stepped into the long-running fight over N17's 80 Willow Road development, warning Menlo Park that it...
Alexander’s Mobility Services Extends 102,000 SQFT Warehouse Lease at Terreno’s 3528 Arden Road in Hayward
Alexander's Mobility Services has extended its lease on a roughly 101,805-square-foot freestanding distribution building at 3528 Arden Road in Hayward, keeping the Atlas...
Northern California Hotel Sales Slide 16% to $642MM as San Francisco and Alameda Volumes Tumble
Northern California recorded 68 hotel sales in the first half of 2026, but dollar volume fell 15.7 percent to $641.8 million as steep...
Bay Area Venture Funding Surges to $100B in Q2 2026, Powered by Anthropic’s $65B AI Round
The nine-county Bay Area drew $100.2 billion in venture capital across 861 deals in the second quarter of 2026, with San Francisco alone...
Alexandria Doubles Its Share of Bay Area Leasing as Advanced Technology Tenants Backfill Lab Space
Alexandria Real Estate Equities captured twice its market share of San Francisco Bay Area leasing in the second quarter, its strongest regional showing,...
Lincoln Council Approves Ron Smith’s 165-Lot Windsor Cove, Clears Lewis Group’s 1,205-Unit Village 7B Plan
The Lincoln City Council last week signed off on Ron Smith's 165-lot Windsor Cove subdivision and cleared Lewis Group of Companies to nearly...
